How to run image Elasticsearch Container on Ubuntu 18.04

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. To read more about at Elasticsearch Document.

In this post I will introduction setup about Elasticsearch container on Ubuntu 18.04. It is make sure you already install docker please check more content at Install Docker.

There are have 3 steps:

Step 1: Downloading image Elasticsearch

Pull Image Elasticsearch on Docker Hub by command:

docker pull elasticsearch:tag

Tag is a specific version image. Recommended specific for version if image have any change version in the future

Verify pull image success by command:

docker images

Step 2: Running in Development Mode for start container

docker run -d --name elasticsearch -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" elasticsearch:tag

Some describes:

• -d: It is detach running container in background
• --name: The name of container
• -p: Port container will expose to host
• -e: It is environment for container

Verify running container success

The command just shows running containers

docker ps

To see all containers, use flag -a

docker ps -a

Open browser access localhost:9200

Step 3: Stop running container and remove container

You can stop container by id or by name

docker stop container_id

docker stop container_name

Verify stop container by command

docker ps -a

docker ps

Conclusion

In this post I have implemented setup Elasticsearch by pull image, run, stop and remove container on Ubuntu 18.04. To learn more about Docker Document, and Elastichsearch Document.

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